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whitepaper In most modern data centers today, application management is a major undertaking. But these applications generally represent less than 10 percent of the total applications within a data center. For this large application set, most data centers rely...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper describes how to design and deploy High Availability (HA) clusters to provide uninterrupted access to data, even if a server loses network or storage connectivity, or fails completely, or if the application running on the server fails.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper The challenge that many Windows-based companies face today is the amount of data they need to backup and protect is growing exponentially, some at a rate of 40-50% per year. Backing up such critical applications as Exchange and SQL can generate...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper As both technology and government agency management systems improve, so too does the viability of enterprise-level Data Center Consolidation (DCC). The significant and short-term cost savings, as well as the resulting improvements in information...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper While the cost per raw TByte may seem relatively inexpensive, the cost for I/O response time performance also needs to be effectively addressed and put into the proper context as part of the data center QoS cost structure.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data is a premier Java and Web-based solution designed to help to identify, evaluate, control, and predict the enterprise storage management needs. This paper provides detail step-by-step instructions to...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Rapidly expanding interconnections are a fact of life as healthcare providers expand access to EMRs and other data by physicians, nurses, transcription services, and radiology interpretation services, and staff members connect via laptops and...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Centralized storage caching provides data center performance insurance by neutralizing and eliminating I/O bottlenecks. This central, sharable, and scalable approach efficiently ensures meeting robust service level agreements in the face of...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper focuses on using firewalls and load balancers in the data center. Load balancers distribute incoming requests to multiple servers, while firewalls analyze the traffic to avoid common attacks to the server farm.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Today's data center is an increasingly complex mixture of server platforms, hardware, operating systems, data, and applications that have accumulated over time. Further complicating the problem, most of those servers are running sub-optimally yet...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Much of the trouble can be eliminated by viewing system planning as a data flow model, with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper presents the Styx Grid Service (SGS), a remote service type that allows data to be streamed directly between service instances. Through the use of persistent connections, clients can monitor progress, status and other service data...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Very few users of digital content consider how data arrives on these devices. The digital age is being delivered via massive server farms housed in data centers that are managed by thousands upon thousands of Information Technology (IT) professionals.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT equipment, so...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. Despite this critical role in data center design, many floor plans are established through incremental deployment without a central plan.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Failure to properly commission a data center leaves the door wide open for expensive and disruptive downtime that could have been avoided. Integrated commissioning of all physical infrastructure components assures maximum data center performance...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper This survey shows that although 70% of organizations are adopting a green initiative, 19% admit the data center has been overlooked and 13% don't know how the data center is affected by the policy. The IT industry and business in general are slowly...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Energy efficiency is a top concern as IT managers struggle with rising power bills, cooling problems, usage limits imposed by local utilities, or requirements to deploy additional servers without expanding an existing data center or building a new...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper With storage requirements for applications like Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server growing exponentially, IT administrators need more cost-effective ways to stretch their data storage budget without increasing backup and recovery windows or...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper "A data center is a facility used to house mission critical computer systems and associated components. Practically every company that is mid-sized or larger has some kind of data center with the larger companies often having dozens of data centers.
[11 May 2008]
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